{"id":904,"date":"2007-05-30T15:25:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T20:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/what-the-heck-is-it-with-animals-anyway\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T15:25:45","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T20:25:45","slug":"what-the-heck-is-it-with-animals-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/what-the-heck-is-it-with-animals-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"What the heck is it with animals, anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Animal round-up time.  Here are some things I have stumbled across in the last while&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Defanged c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=d3b_1178524471&amp;p=1\">obra meets one tough baby<\/a> (from Metafilter).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2007\/05\/29\/lion-in-the-tub\/\">Embarassed lion looking stupid in a tub<\/a> (from Neatorama).  That guy is definitely on the to-be-munched-later list.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/05\/13\/walking.sea.lion.ca.ap\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">Sea lion does a lap in a kids&#8217; walk-a-thon<\/a> (CNN).<\/li>\n<li>Octopi are <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TableOfMalcontents\/~3\/117744233\/morning_thing_m_1.html\">freaky freaky weird<\/a> (Table of Malcontents).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2007\/05\/20\/jellyfish-lake\/\">Jellyfish Lake is extra deathy<\/a> (Neatorama).  This reminds me of that scene in Finding Nemo&#8230;.  I have kids, go figure.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/meast\/05\/28\/leopard.jerusalem.ap\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">Bed Leopard<\/a> (CNN).  Guy wakes up to find a leopard in his bed, wrestles leopard in his jammies, leopard gives up.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TECH\/science\/05\/17\/baldness.study.reut\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">Mice may have the cure for baldness<\/a>&#8230;.(CNN)<\/li>\n<li>And the money shot&#8230;. the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/nature\/deepjungle\/episode2_nicholas.html\">chicken EATING spider<\/a> (PBS via Metafilter)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Man, animals are strange animals, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animal round-up time. Here are some things I have stumbled across in the last while&#8230;. Defanged cobra meets one tough baby (from Metafilter). Embarassed lion looking stupid in a tub (from Neatorama). That guy is definitely on the to-be-munched-later list. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/what-the-heck-is-it-with-animals-anyway\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse-soon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-eA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}